Method and device to stretch socks in boarding machines
OwnerCarmelo Angelo Corteseinventor
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Abstract
This method is applied in men stocking boarding units including an implement bearing several boarding shapes and suited to be led into a steam boarding chamber defined by two shells, movable with respect to each other into a mutual opening and closing position. The method provides for grasping the stocking inserted on a relevant boarding shape, in correspondence with the cuff of said stocking and on opposing sides of boarding shape itself, inside said boarding chamber, by means of opposing gripping means bound to shells of boarding chamber. Upon boarding unit shells closure, said gripping means are elastically deformed and stretch the stocking leg on the boarding shape to a preset length. The stocking leg is kept stretched during the boarding phase inside the boarding chamber.
Claims16
A method for stretching stockings in men's stocking boarding units of the type equipped with an implement mounting several boarding shapes over which stockings are positioned;
- said implement being suited to be introduced into a steam boarding chamber defined by two shells, which are movable with respect to each other into a mutuabopening and closing position;
- said method comprises:
- grasping a cuff of a stocking inserted on a respective one of the boarding shapes opposing sides of the respective boarding shape, inside said boarding chamber, by means of opposing gripping means bound to said shells of the boarding chamber and
- elastically deforming said gripping means upon a closing of said boarding chamber shells, in order to stretch a leg of the stocking on the respective boarding shape to a preset length;
- to keep the leg of said stocking stretched during a boarding phase, inside said boarding chamber.
A device for stretching stockings in men's stockings boarding units of the type equipped with an implement which mounts several boarding shapes over which stockings are positioned;
- said implement being suited to be introduced into a steam boarding chamber defined by two shells, which are movable with respect to each other into opening and closing positions;
- characterized in that it includes said device including opposing gripping means bound to said shells inside said boarding chamber, which are capable of grasping a cuff of a stocking disposed on a respective boarding shape, on opposing sides of the boarding shape itself, and which can be elastically deformed upon closure of said shells, in order to stretch a leg of the stocking on said boarding shape to a preset length.
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